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Biographies

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Person Icon Arnold Kibuuka
Project Officer, Standardization Bureau, ITU

​Arnold Kibuuka is a member of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) Security, Infrastructure and Trust Working Group. He currently supports the digital financial services security lab at the ITU. Prior to joining ITU, Arnold was the senior technical security officer at MTN for six years.​​​​





​​Amol Kul​karni
Director (Research), CUTS International

Amol Kulkarni is Research Director at CUTS International, a public policy research and advocacy group, headquartered in India. He works in the areas of finance, technology, and regulation. Amol has led large-scale surveys, industry consultations, and mix methods studies to unpack interlinkages between regulation, competition, market reactions, and user behavior in digital payments, credit, and insurance, covering issues like access, privacy, security, trust, fraud, grievance redress, and inclusion. He is adept in using tools like cost benefit analysis, conducts sessions for regulators to integrate these in regulation making, and helps self-regulatory agencies formulate industry codes of conduct. Amol has studied law and business administration and has several publications to his credit. 



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